Req #77356 [Wfx]: ITS: Prevent marking tickets as duplicates without specifying original report

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77356&edit=1 ID: 77356 User updated by: chealer at gmail dot com Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com Summary: ITS: Prevent marking tickets as duplicates without specifying original report Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Christoph, could you provide evidence that bugsnet has been superseded? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2022-01-20 17:06:32] cmb@php.net Given that bugsnet has been superseded by GH issues, it is sufficiently safe to assume that this issue won't be fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-27 11:52:13] chealer at gmail dot com Ah, thank you for the explanation cmb, I see what you mean but I did not mean to suggest using any artificial intelligence, no. Sorry, I misunderstood how Related reports works. I was rather suggesting a field to explicitly define the report with which a duplicate is redundant, as Bugzilla does: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/bugzilla/bugzilla_duplicate.htm https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548960 This field would appear when the Status field would be set to the value Duplicate. It would also allow other improvements to duplicate handling, like managing those who subscribe to a ticket automatically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-27 10:54:19] cmb@php.net Just to explain how that currently works: if a user refers to some other ticket using “bug hash number”, the other ticket automatically gets an entry “Related To: Bug hash number”. These entries can be filtered via the related reports “button”. See, for instance, <https://bugs.php.net/77347>, which has been closed as duplicate of <https://bugs.php.net/77278>. Only the latter has a filterable related reports entry. So, basically no duplicate is presently supposed to show any related reports. Also, there is a problem regarding comments which contain inadvertant referrals to other tickets. See, for instance, <https://bugs.php.net/2307> which claims to be related to <https://bugs.php.net/77349> which it is certainly not. > […] and would deserve a change in the system so developers > cannot mark a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a > related ticket tracking the same issue. Hmm, that would require advanced AI, wouldn't it? Anyhow, I suggest to move the discussion regarding possible improvements of referrals and duplicates to the php-webmaster@ mailing list, since a bug tracker is unsuitable for brainstorming, which is certainly necessary in this case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-27 04:53:28] chealer at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I noticed a few tickets marked as duplicates without any indication of which tickets they would duplicate. For instance, the following 2 tickets have their Status field set to Duplicate, but the Related reports tab is empty: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60024 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62132 As this is the result of changes by 2 developers, it looks like this is not exceptional, and would deserve a change in the system so developers cannot mark a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a related ticket tracking the same issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77356&edit=1